[Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:40:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong place (R-devel)
> 
> On 12/01/2015 6:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> >> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> >> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:50:35 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD build looking for texi2dvi in the wrong
> >> place (R-devel)
> >>
> >> Dan,
> >>
> >> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Dan Tenenbaum
> >> <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> R CMD build fails with recent R-devel because it is looking for
> >>> texi2dvi in /usr/local/bin, but on this system, MacTex has
> >>> installed it in /usr/bin.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, you're looking at the wrong package - texi2dvi comes from
> >> texinfo
> >> which is now mandatory in version 5.2+ located in /usr/local since
> >> OS X comes with an old version. You should install it from
> >>
> >> http://r.research.att.com/libs/texinfo-5.2-darwin10.tar.gz
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks, was there an announcement that I missed about this and if
> > so, where was it?
> 
> It has been in the NEWS file since Jan 6.  You can see it there, and
> would have seen it announced here:
> 
> http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/2015/01/06#n2015-01-06
> 

Thanks, I'll subscribe to these feeds.
Dan


> Duncan Murdoch
>